Mulder: Mulder.
Scully: Mulder, it’s me.
Mulder: I thought you said you were on vacation.
Scully: I am. I’m up in Maine.
Mulder: I thought you said you didn’t want to be disturbed. You
wanted to get out of your head for a few days.
Scully: I don’t … I mean, I do. I …. (moaning from TV is loud)
What are you watching, Mulder?
Mulder: It’s the World’s Deadliest Swarms. (Fumbles with remote
to stop the tape.) Um .. you said you were going to be unreachable.
What’s going on?
Scully: I, uh … I’m at a market here. I’m just trying to give
the local PD a handle here.
Mulder: A handle on what?
Scully: Well, I’m not quite sure how to describe it, Mulder.
I didn’t witness it myself but there seems to be some kind of an outbreak
of people acting in a violent, involuntary way.
Mulder: Towards who?
Scully: Toward themselves.
Mulder: Themselves?
Scully: Yeah. Beating at their faces, clawing at their eyes.
One man is dead.
Mulder: Dead? How?
Scully: Self-inflicted, it appears.
Mulder: Huh … it sounds to me like that’s witchcraft or maybe some
sorcery that you’re looking for there.
Scully: No, I don’t think it’s witchcraft, Mulder, or sorcery. I’ve
had a look around and I don’t see any evidence that warrants that kind
of suspicion.
Mulder: Maybe you don’t know what you’re looking for.
Scully: Like evidence of conjury or the black arts or shamanism, divination,
Wicca or any kind of pagan or neo-Pagan practice. Charms, cards, familiars,
bloodstones, or hex signs or any of the ritual tableaux associated with
the occult, Santeria, Voudoun, Macumba, or any high or low magic?
Mulder: Scully …
Scully: Yes?
Mulder: Marry me.
Scully: I was hoping for something a little more helpful.
Mulder: Well, you know, short of looking for a lady wearing a pointy
hat riding a broomstick, I think you pretty much got it covered there.
Scully: Thanks anyway.